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This grand lady is Colette; Colette of Collingwood to be precise. She was born in Chile on the 1st of June 2000. As far as I can determine she lived there until she was about five years old, then was brought to the UK where she was registered. Her pedigree gives her...

Solomons Alpha Centauri. This lovely boy is Alpha. He was the first cria on the farm; not born here, but only just! He was born a month before he and his mum were purchased by us, so I don't expect he remembers his first home. He has the softest fibre of any of our...

Felicia. This foxy lady is Rushmere Felicia. Her sire was about the best grey alpaca male ever in the UK. He won a total of 27 championships, two reserve champions and almost countless first places in shows all over the country. What is more he continued to win into...

Apollo Ellington. Ellington is one of our herd sires. He is 1/2 brother to our own Betsy, Estelle and Emmanuelle. He is also dad to Solomons Batty Ballerina (I will introduce her soon) and we are expecting a full sister or brother to her this year. It will be...

Solomons Betty Boo. How absolutely gorgeous is this girl then? Despite being soaked to the skin. You won't catch her being a wimp and hiding from the rain. This is Boo, not Betty as we have a Betsy, and that could cause confusion. Boo was the youngest of the Solomons...

Heather. Today I would like to introduce you to Heather. A lovely dark brown alpaca. Heather is by far our tallest girl, the only one who can get her head and neck about eighteen inches out of the top of the crush when being handled. She thinks she is the alpaca...

Tibbs. Patou Tiberious, to give him his full name, came to live with us in 2019. It was a bit of an accident actually, well, at least unintended. We went to the Somerset County show one glorious late September day in 2019. My plan was to sit in front of the alpaca...

Elouisa. Rushmere Elouisa was added to the herd in 2019 with Felicia, Hera and Claudia. They brought the grey gene to the genetic mix. up to this point we had white, (lots of white) fawn and brown. This big, bold, upstanding girl is mother to Solomons Aurora Dew and...

Marc Anthony. Purston Marc Anthony is his pedigree name. Quite an auspicious name really, as his sire was an alpaca of renown called Purston Peruvian Kim, who is also Elouisa's sire. Kim has sired 178 cria! That is truly going some. lol Marc Anthony has a long way to...